In the 1960s and 1970s, Ursula K. Le Guin wrote speculative fiction shaped by her interests in environments and ecologies, her pacifist anarchist feminism, and her anti-Vietnam War activism. A Wizard ...
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This week, the British academy was rocked by a scandal that curdled into a tragedy. Jason Arday, a neurodivergent Black Cambridge professor who was feted as a wunderkind by some and denigrated as a fa...
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For the true beginner, there can be no end. From the moment they sit at the desk, the unemerged writer faces a step-by-step gauntlet of workshopping, applying, contesting; of liking screenshots of Pub...
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Did smartphones kill reading? In The Atlantic, Rose Horowitch laments that “The Age of Reading is Over.” We still, she observes, encounter many words, but increasingly find them in emails, text messag...
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“Wild swimming” is a term coined by British nature writer Roger Deakin in his cult classic Waterlog: A Swimmer’s Journey Through Britain (1999), about his year swimming outdoors all over the UK. A pae...
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I’ve been on the hunt for books by women for as long as I can remember. My favorite stories are usually not romances, but stories of women trying to make sense of how they can be the main characters i...
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Multiple current EA employees share their views on how the publisher's seismic $55 billion take-private will impact the people behind its popular franchises.
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Are you a fan of alternate history stories? If so, Silo book author Hugh Howey has an intriguing sci-fi novel recommendation for you.
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A record that shows beauty isn’t always there to be translated — sometimes, it’s enough simply to listen.
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Doubling down on their initial rough’n’ready brilliance to make good on their potential and then some.
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A record with plenty of heart, often wearing it proudly on its sleeve.
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Now that Project Hail Mary is available to watch at home, more people than ever are wondering about the fate of Ryland Grace and Rocky.
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Sci-Fi author Isaac Asimov once spent 15 hours reading a controversial book that was turned into a classic Hollywood movie.
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Taylor Sheridan fans may want to stream this military series from the creatives behind Dutton Ranch and Marshals now that it's on Netflix.
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Zara and Aaron Levine's third outing solidifies their partnership as one of the most winning in the biz.
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